QBKL said
I know what you mean, and you surely remember how that feels when you share about 50% of your item’s earnings… But anyway, let’s not walk away from the real subject of this topic. Let’s all go to churches, mosques, synagogues and pray that sometime in the next 20 pages (first 20 were not that lucky) we get a staff reply that actually makes sense and goes into detail.

QBKL said
I know what you mean, and you surely remember how that feels when you share about 50% of your item’s earnings… But anyway, let’s not walk away from the real subject of this topic. Let’s all go to churches, mosques, synagogues and pray that sometime in the next 20 pages (first 20 were not that lucky) we get a staff reply that actually makes sense and goes into detail.

From the days when top level staffs halted their involvement with community and appointed paid staff for that section… well that helps staffs to escape from these nuisance of answering to the community. But when it comes to external promotions, Envato is eager to add the word “community” as an attraction force.

Anyway, Envato learned the art of dragging and achieving the economy and escape from responsibilities. This strategy is successful at least for the past 3 years. If I remember correctly, the only major change they managed to complete was GPL options after facing external pressures. So I guess the only force that will make Envato to keep their navigation balanced is – when external criteria makes them to do such things. Until that, we enjoy conversations between authors on forums – its a great feel to go through off topics!

RubenBristian said
^ Thanks!
My point was .. we are not paying Envato 30% for a nice profile page and some badges. We are paying them for the ecosystem which should draw promotion. I shouldn’t spend a nickle or a minute trying to promote myself – that’s why i give 30% of my share to Envato – it’s their job.

Now this is one of the most spot on posts i ever saw, this should be on that bar were bundles are!

RubenBristian said
^ Thanks!
My point was .. we are not paying Envato 30% for a nice profile page and some badges. We are paying them for the ecosystem which should draw promotion. I shouldn’t spend a nickle or a minute trying to promote myself – that’s why i give 30% of my share to Envato – it’s their job.

+1 Especially for ThemeForest authors – considering the fact that making a successful theme is a time consuming process and requires huge attention on support.

RubenBristian said
Not all of us do that. I don’t blog, don’t social, don’t ads, don’t self, don’t anything

And you have referred 200+ users to ThemeForest and it’s great to have this badge without doing anything I wish I can do the same

You could

Just use a custom preview frame for your items and put your referral there. I make around $100-200 / month just with referrals from the top bar – usually when you release a new item it will get picked up by a lot of dudes with their own WP review sites, etc. They will put a link to your item’s preview and a link to your item’s page (with a referral on both). But if a user clicks your item’s preview first and then hits the purchase button from your preview he’ll get referred by you and you with 30% by doing nothing

RubenBristian said
usually when you release a new item it will get picked up by a lot of dudes with their own WP review sites, etc.

Thanks Ruben! But here is the point. Elite users are giving 30% of their profit to ThemeForest but it’s not the whole story. When our items are listed in ThemeForest, it will be on hundreds of sites which will advertise for us for free. And actually Envato is paying for this by paying 30% for the referral cuts to these sites.

So, being on ThemeForest does not mean only the homepage. There are lots of websites that will advertise for us when it’s about items on ThemeForest…

So I believe that you are not giving 30% (and me about 45%) to TF for nothing. Even if our items don’t stay on the HP, we are able to be seen…

I’m new here. Maybe I’m not getting everything as good as more experienced authors. So sorry if I’m wrong

RubenBristian said
usually when you release a new item it will get picked up by a lot of dudes with their own WP review sites, etc.

And actually Envato is paying for this by paying 30% for the referral cuts to these sites.

What?! Where did you come with this from? My point was not about exposure but about your questions regarding referrals. There are a lot of users who have their own sites and try to make money from the referral system, this has absolutely nothing to do with Envato. I was just teaching you how to steal their referrals nothing more

^ Actually I was trying to give my opinion about this post and later posts from other unhappy authors by using your own words

What I want to say is that Envato people are doing their job as good as possible. ThemeForest is not only its homepage that authors in this thread are not happy with their items exposure duration on it.

They are doing great promotions for our items. One of them is this referral program that is making so many people around the world to start sites that will earn a lot from Envato by advertising for our items.

RubenBristian said
we are not paying Envato 30% for a nice profile page and some badges. We are paying them for the ecosystem which should draw promotion. I shouldn’t spend a nickle or a minute trying to promote myself that’s why i give 30% of my share to Envato it’s their job.